Summary: - Know - Grow - Discover - Go Matthew 28:19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:16-17 16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. - The authority of scripture - The authority of science Science can explain many things, Science can explain everything "It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist." - Tim Keller, The Reason For God - Justice - Morality - Beauty - Purpose - Meaning - Miracles - Eternity - Love "Maybe it means something more - something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it." - Dr. Amelia Brand, Interstellar - The authority of culture/government "How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code is out of harmony with the moral law. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail - The authority of Me "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life." - Supreme Court Planned Parenthood v. Casey It's time to see what I can do to test the limits and break through. No right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free! - Let it Go, Frozen Are there some things that are just plain wrong no matter what anybody says? "I don't know that people, like terrorists, what they do? It's not wrong to them... they're doing the thing that they think is the best thing they could possibly do and so they're doing good. I had this discussion with a friend recently and she's like, 'But they're still murdering tons of people, that just has to be wrong.' And I was like, 'But do we have any idea if it is actually wrong to murder tons of people?'" - Who says? John 6:53 Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." John 6:60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" John 6:66-69 66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God." Who is Jesus? Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical - Timothy Keller The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism - Timothy Keller The New Testament Documents: Are they reliable? - F.F. Bruce On the Reliability of the Old Testament - K.A. Kitchen
